It took a team of people to decorate the sculpture, with one worker given the job of going up in a cherry picker to spray-paint her knickers on.

Some critics call the piece crude, creepy, and sexist...

Marilyn Monroe statue carries a spectacle across the decade. Just when you thought the objectification of 20th century America's preferred icon of brazen, infantilized female sexuality couldn't go much further…along comes the 26-foot sculpture by Seward Johnson known as “Forever Marilyn,” unveiled Friday morning in Pioneer Court just north of the Michigan Avenue bridge. Read more here

"Forever Marilyn" unveiled. The bombshell is standing on what looks like a masonic checkerboard, with a "Fidelity Investment" sign between her legs.